Gigantosphaeridium fibratum

No picture of Gigantosphaeridium fibratum was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Gigantosphaeridium fibratum firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GigantosphaeridiumPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 400 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1600 Mya to 1200 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 1800 Mya to 1000 Mya.

1816–1788 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1788–1761 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1761–1733 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1733–1705 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1705–1677 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1677–1650 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1650–1622 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1622–1594 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1206–1178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1178–1150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1150–1123 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1123–1095 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1095–1067 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1067–1039 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1039–1012 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1012–984 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1600 Mya1200 Mya1816 Mya984 Mya

5 occurrences of Gigantosphaeridium fibratum on record. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

5 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

3 formations

Blue Hole — 17.09°S, 130.38°ENelson Head — 67.62°N, 115.73°WAmos Knob — 17.25°S, 130.54°E

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The named rock units Gigantosphaeridium fibratum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

50 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Gigantosphaeridium fibratum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

2 references

Each of the 5 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Gigantosphaeridium fibratum was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Gigantosphaeridium fibratum firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Gigantosphaeridium fibratum was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGigantosphaeridium through time

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agic and et al 2015